Journal updates
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Call for Papers Special Issue on “Advances and perspectives of plant-soil interactions in Mediterranean ecosystems”
In this special issue, dedicated to Mediterranean systems, we welcome research with a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Best practices for soil conservation in the region, assessing the effects of Global Change on ecosystem service provision by plant and soils and exploring plant-soil interactions across multiple scales, from physicochemical processes to biological dynamics, encompassing aspects of community ecology.
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2024 | Expected 2025
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Plant facilitation”
This Special Issue aims to gather studies on the mechanisms underlying positive interactions between plants. We welcome studies examining coexistence, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, successional change, as well evolutionary examinations of facilitation, mutualism, and commensalism. We also examine theoretical and/or modelling work, but we’d like to see strong connections to ecological or evolutionary mechanisms.
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2024 | Expected 2024
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Effects of fire on plant-soil-microorganism interactions”
This special issue aims to address emerging paradigms on factors that explain how fire impacts soil microorganisms and their interactions with plants. We envision papers with a broad range of topics such as using compositional change and traits to predict fire effects, understanding the role of soil physicochemical properties, and identifying cross-biome trends in responses. We are particularly interested in papers that evaluate the potential impact of changing fire regimes (e.g., rising intensity and frequency in forests) on plant and soil microorganisms.
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2023 | Expected 2024
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Responses of plant-soil interaction to atmospheric circulation: Linking global scale with plant-soil system”
This special issue aims to gather studies on responses of plant-soil interaction to atmospheric circulation variations while focusing on interactions among plant, microbe and soil
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024 | Expected 2024
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Exploring the plant and soil mechanisms by which crop rotations benefit farming systems”
This Special Issue will bring together a collection of reviews and research papers that will focus on uncovering the plant and soil mechanisms by which crop rotations benefit farming systems.
Submission Deadline: 30 September 2023 | Expected 2024
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Interview with Editor in Chief, Hans Lambers
2022 marks Emeritus Professor Hans Lambers’ 30th anniversary as Editor in Chief of Plant and Soil. Please see the interview here.
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Marschner Reviews
Marschner Reviews are authoritative reviews on topics that are highly relevant to soil–plant interactions, ranging from molecular to ecosystem levels.
All the Marschner Reviews published in Plant and Soil are freely available.
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Virtual Issues Archive
VIRTUAL ISSUE No. 6: Closing knowledge-gaps for quantifying, predicting and mitigating nitrous oxide emissions
VIRTUAL ISSUE No. 5: Facing Phosphorus Scarcity
VIRTUAL ISSUE No. 4: Factors Affecting Methane Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems
VIRTUAL ISSUE No. 3: Soil Carbon
VIRTUAL ISSUE No. 2: The Rhizosphere Microbiota and Plant Health
VIRTUAL ISSUE No. 1: Biochar